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Torrance Telegram Issue 7 March 2016 Torrance Branch AAUW, P.O. Box 1392, Torrance, CA 90505 [email protected] http://torrance-ca.aauw.net
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Torrance Telegram Issue 7 March 2016
TorranceBranchAAUW,P.O.Box1392,Torrance,[email protected]://torrance-ca.aauw.net
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Hello Torrance Branch Members!
It’s nearly March and we are in high gear selling tickets to our April fundraiser,
“An Afternoon Tea & Tea Tasting!” As you know, our speaker will be THE tea
expert at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, David DeCandia. He will guide us through
proper brewing and tasting of our first tea, English Breakfast Tea, before giving
us a talk about how the tea is grown and his travels around the globe to find the
best teas, and then taking us through our second tasting, this time of Jasmine
Pearl Tea. Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf buys their teas directly from the growers –
no middle men involved – so David has a personal connection to all the teas they
sell.
We will also have a silent auction with a variety of goods, services and vacations
and again a “Best Hat” contest. Please invite your family and friends and get
those order forms with checks in the mail ASAP! You will find an order form for
your use in this newsletter.
This month’s branch meeting, to be held on March 19th, will be a celebration of
Women’s History Month. Our local historian, Jamie Watson, will tell us all about
“the most famous woman you’ve never heard of”, Julia Morgan, architect of
Hearst Castle. She was definitely a woman before her time – and I personally look forward to hearing about her
life.
Also to be covered at the March meeting is a call for nominees for next year’s board. We all have hidden talents
and strengths – why not add yours to the mix next year? We can always benefit from new ideas!
Our next Board Meeting is Tuesday March 1st at my house. All interested members are welcome.
See you March 19th.
Elaine
2015-16 EXECUTIVE BOARD
PRESIDENT [email protected]
CORRESPONDINGSECRETARIESBeckyDyerrebecck@[email protected]
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EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP COMMITTEE
Our next EPC meeting will be held on our regular meeting day, the second
Thursday of the month, Thursday, March 10, 2016 at Moog, at 6:30 p.m. Please
contact Pam Kenoyer [email protected] for admittance. Moog is located at 20263
Western Ave., Torrance.
It is important that all those who will be reading the Tech Trek nominee
applications attend this meeting on March 10 to pick up the Reader materials which
contain evaluation forms for the Reader’s use and to have any questions answered.
Reading needs to be completed and ranked by March 17 and sent to Karen Hassen by
March 18. Thank you so much to all those members who have volunteered to read.
School assignments for the Readers will be made in early March. Contact Peggy
Monga at [email protected] with any questions or if you need to make other
arrangements.
The school buddies have completed their visits to all 15 schools. Many thanks to
our school buddies Nancy Brock, Pat Carroll, Athena Cormier, Ann DuPuy, Judy Hill,
Gloria Liu, Marinez Jones, Pam Kenoyer, Susan Negrete, Kay Odgers, Suzanne Siney,
and Margot Sullivan for visiting the schools and acting as School Reader Captains.
We are so grateful to Vicki Goorchenko for scanning all the nominee materials and
to Janice Pomerantz for updating our database. Thank you to Pam Kenoyer for
printing all the materials and to those who put together all the school buddy
packets: Nancy Brock, Michele Freck, Pam Kenoyer, Peggy Monga and Margot
Sullivan.
We have received wonderful news that Saatchi and Saatchi will be providing 2
camper scholarships this year. We are very excited and appreciative of their generosity.
We look forward to seeing you on the 10th.
Margot Sullivan, EPC member
BRANCHHISTORIANSPatCarrolltnpcarroll@[email protected]
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AAUW Fund
AFTERNOON TEA FUNDRAISER
Buy your tickets now! Get ready for a wonderful time at our Third Annual AAUW Torrance Afternoon Tea. We’ll
enjoy ourselves with yummy tea food, pretty china, a hat contest, and silent auction. The program features
professional tea expert David DeCandia who will discuss the growing of tea and his travels to purchase it for The
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. He will speak about the finer points of tea while guiding us through a tea tasting.
What: Afternoon Tea and Tea Tasting
When: Saturday April 16, 2016, 1:30 to 4:00 pm
Where: Toyota USA Automobile Museum, 19600 Van Ness Ave, Torrance, CA (automotive section will be closed)
Proceeds benefit: AAUW Fund Work Smart/ Start Smart workshops for women to negotiate pay for
Pay Equity.
Cost - $25 before April 1, $30 after April 1. Reservations close April 11. Reserve by prepayment with a
check. Reservation forms are at the Torrance AAUW website: http://torrance-ca.aauw.net.
Please invite your friends and acquaintances, AAUW or not. This event is open to the public. To facilitate our
planning, please reserve as early as possible to ensure we have enough place settings, tables, and table hostesses.
To reserve your spots or table of eight, send in your money now!
We are making a big outreach and inviting the wider community. We need to put our best foot forward while
making our name better known. Last year’s tea at the Airport Room was filled to capacity. This year we were able
to obtain the Toyota Auto Museum to accommodate the anticipated higher attendance. The museum kindly waived
its significant usage fee. Please help us make the event go smoothly by contributing in the areas below.
Make or get donations for the silent auction. Last year half of our proceeds came from the silent auction.
Please contact Athena Paquette Cormier for more information.
Ensure our tea is a great success by performing one of the following:
1. Welcome guests - greet people 2. Register attendees - Put a face to the name of fellow members 3. Cashier – show me the money 4. Loan things – Put to use some of things taking up space in your home – thermoses, china, flatware 5. Get some exercise – we could use some physical labor in picking up food, china, or whatever is needed
If you email [email protected] your message will be forwarded to the appropriate person. With your help, we will have a fun successful run event! Gloria Liu [email protected] 310 683-3695
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INTEREST GROUPS
Diversity Book Group Date & Time: Friday, March 18, 6:30pm
At the home of Nancy Kenney
RSVP to Nancy at (310)[email protected] Tale for the Time Being By Ruth Ozeki (Asian-Pacific American Heritage) In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived for more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace, and it will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox — possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of the lunchbox’s contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. Evening Literature Group Date & Time: Tuesday, March 22, 7:30pm At the home of Kay Odgers RSVP to Lisa at 310 835-9613 or [email protected] A Spool of Blue Thread by Ann Tyler This is one of Tyler’s best! The novel reveals the story of three generations of a family’s life, written with humor, insight and compassion. Portrayed are eccentric characters and family quirks woven into a story well worth reading.
Coming in April: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Film Group Date & Time: Wednesday, March 23, 7:00 pm At the home of Ann DuPuy RSVP to 310-316-4808 or [email protected] French noir. Both are available at Redondo, Torrance Branches and Netflix. RIFIFI (1955)(2001)(2014) Director Jules Dassin created one of cinema's greatest heist films with this tense tale about a daring jewel robbery carried out by four veteran thieves. After the gang pulls off the job, however, the plan starts coming apart at the seams. “The modern heist movie was invented in Paris in 1954 by Jules Dassin, [who] built his film around a 28-minute safe-cracking sequence that is the father of all later movies in which thieves carry out complicated robberies.”—one of Ebert’s GREAT MOVIES.
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INTEREST GROUPS, continued
Film Group, cont. BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955)(2002)(Rated PG) In Jean-Pierre Melville's intelligent drama, Bob (Roger Duchesne) is a compulsive gambler with a deep well of compassion. He's a father figure to street kids Paolo (Daniel Cauchy) and Anne (Isabelle Corey), and he cares for them as if they were his own. When he runs out of money, the three hatch a plan to rob a Deauville casino. Can they pull off the ultimate heist? “Before the New Wave, before Goddard and Truffaut, [there was Melville]”—one of Ebert’s GREAT MOVIES.
Women in Transition (WIT)
No meeting in March.
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Book Note by Jamie Watson
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island by
Jo Anne Van Tilburg
Katherine Routledge is a central figure in the history of Easter Island, one of the world's most remote and
mysterious locales. Born to a wealthy and prestigious English Quaker family in 1866, Katherine rebelled against
Victorian values, becoming one of the first female graduates of Oxford University and the first woman
archaeologist to work in Polynesia. From 1913 to 1915, Katherine and her husband, Australian adventurer William
Scoresby Routledge, led the Mana Expedition to Easter Island, where Katherine conducted the first ever
excavations of the island's world-famous stone statues. Katherine collected vast quantities of new information,
and through interviews with dozens of elderly men and women, she was able to save the history of the island,
whose population was struggling back from the brink of extinction. Without Katherine's extraordinary efforts,
Easter Island's traditional beliefs and customs would have been forever lost. The book is an exciting personal
story, set against the drama of Katherine's remarkable exploration of one of the most intriguing archaeological
sites in the world.
